Ramana Maharshi Quotes

‘I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.

You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All that you have to do is to give up being aware of other things, that is of the not-Self. If one gives up being aware of them then pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self.

If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.

Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.

All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?

You are already That which you seek.

Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.

Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.

It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.

There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.